cosset

In contrast, the high-ticket productions on Broadway more often than not aim to cosset.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2019

She wonders if there was something in Farquharson, by contrast, that brought out “the maternal in women, our tendency to cosset, to infantilise.”

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016

Supporters of scooters say they offer something extremely valuable - freedom, countering the perceived tendency of many risk-averse parents to cosset their children indoors.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2015

It is clear from the excellent condition of all our homes that we cosset them.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2012

Come, my cosset, and I will read you what Humility hath to tell us of her voyage, of home, and all else!

From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Marion Ames Taggart

Yet The Man Who Knew Infinity also shows the place as a golden doll’s house that cossets the don he plays, Trinity College maths professor GH Hardy.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2016

A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses.

From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2010

No, she calls the Plaza's elegant Edwardian Room, an oasis that cossets the wealthy with candles and linen napkins.

From Time Magazine Archive

And how could any live creeter brook the agony them long steel cossets wuz dealin’ the wearer?

From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Marietta Holley

There is really no describing how a swindler cossets his dupe.

From Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac

An otherwise urban-dwelling sophisticate, he cultivated a rustic demeanor for France’s benefit, uncharacteristically donning a coonskin hat and simple clothes to impress cosseted aristocrats and ordinary Parisians alike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Is there a benefit to being ignored by the industry — you don’t end up cosseted or overly corporate — at least as far as your stand-up goes?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025

I cosseted my weary garden with clover, practiced patience, saw the vanity of overwork.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023

Much of his life was spent in the cosseted luxury of a five-star hotel.

From BBC ● May 14, 2023

Aye, Cap'n," growled Job, "'tis well enough keeping the Don to hang afore Nombre but why must this dog live aft and cosseted?

From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol

Catherine essentially becomes a character in a Sofia Coppola movie who grows increasingly trapped and anguished in proportion to her cosseting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

Instead of a business brain cosseting the creative genius in his ivory tower, Mr. Radboy is more like a wavelength sparring partner, helping to construct a permeable scaffolding for their world.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2020

“You’ve got to have a sense of risk and excitement,” she says, “otherwise we’re cosseting our kids in a bubble-wrapped world.”

From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2019

Experienced for the first time, this covert cosseting feels slightly melancholy, like an episode of Cold War fiction involving futile charades and a likely defenestration.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2016

The rescuers needed cosseting as much as the rescued.

From For the Sake of the School by Angela Brazil